Re: man hangs with less and more

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

You probably have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or some of your bash startup files. 
For some reason 'set -a' causes this problem. It's also reported as bug #8390.

The only cure I have is to remove 'set -a' from the startup files and 
logout/login again.

Mark Boyns wrote:
>
> When I run:
> 
>    $ man ls
> 
> it just sits there.  ^C reveals:
> 
> man: command exited with status 2: /bin/gzip -dc '/var/catman/cat1/ls.1.gz' | { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='ls(1)'; LESS="$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page $MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\\%.."; less; }
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// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland



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